Ford Surprisingly Votes Against His Own Proposed Budget

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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In today’s Toronto city council meeting to discuss budget, the council voted to uphold a motion adding two per cent residential property tax increase, while astonishingly Mayor Rob Ford later voted against his own budget. The debate started in the council as majority members agreed to implement property tax increase of two per cent in the $9.4-billion budget.

Soon after which, Coun. Janet Davis’ motions of 2.5 per cent hike and Coun. Gord Perks’s motion of 3.1 per cent increase were all rejected and voted out. Council also put down the motion of Coun. Georgio Mammoliti, by 40-4 vote majority, suggesting zero-per-cent increase, while surprisingly enough Ford voted in favor of Mammoliti’s motion and not his own two per cent increase, even though he had spent weeks to draft the budget. Amazed by this act, fiscal conservative Coun. Denzil Minnan-Wong stated that “the mayor voted against his own budget … against his own tax rate.” He added that “It seems to me that some of us are more supportive of his budget than he is. I don’t think any mayor in the history of the city of Toronto has proposed a budget and then voted against his own tax rate increase.”

On the other hand, Coun. Doug Ford criticized Minnan-Wong’s comments, labeling him to be “politicking.” Later when Mammoliti’s motion was put, Ford voted for his own original two per cent property tax increase proposal. Ford allegedly stated that “we are not responding to fear-mongering when it comes to emergency services budgets. We will make the decisions based on evidence.”